Back-end Developer - Financial/Retirement Modeling Tools
Location: US, IL, Chicago
Salary range: 65000-85000
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Associate
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
We believe in a smarter workplace.The gateway to a successful business is an efficient, productive workplace. We Are Mammoth builds web apps that help companies around the world do a better job communicating, organizing, and hiring.Our mission as a workplace feeds our mission as a business.Our mission as a workplace is to be just as productive as the folks who work here everyday building software. Indeed, building an efficient company requires just as much design, craft, and focus as building a high-availability software system. Effective project management, sharp IT support, a healthy fridge, comprehensive benefits, and helping folks be proactive team members are just a few ways we express our view that the gateway to a successful business is an efficient workplace.Our mission as a business is to build web apps and services which help other companies be better places to work at too. Every company should work smarter, hire better, and organize quicker. Our applications and consulting services show them how.

Job description:
We’re looking for a back-end application developer with at least 2 years of experience to round out our team. You're welcome to join us here at our Chicago office, but if you'd like to stay in that beautiful 'other' place you currently live, that's fine too. (Onshore applicants only please.)We Are Mammoth builds retirement, workplace, and financial modeling tools which help companies big and small be better employers/teams/people at work. You'll be interfacing directly with our clients in equal parts coder and communicator because we believe the best way to get work done is to connect the folks doing the work with the folks requesting it.  We also build and sell DoneDone, our own web-based issue tracker and are developing our second product now. We attend and speak at web design and development conferences around the country. We’re avid developers, designers, writers, and thinkers. One of our partners just authored a book on web developer life – The Developer’s Code. If you read it, you’ll get a sense of the values and approach here at We Are Mammoth.Here are some things you might be doing in a given week:Architect a data model for a custom app using our data modeling framework, X2O.Discuss and document the implementation details of an application feature directly with the client.Maintain our existing client web sites and applications code services and web pages using the .NET MVC framework.Generate hundreds of thousands of customized PDF documents for our client’s customers.Run your code through performance profilers (we like ANTS) and speed up your slow code.Give a talk to the other developers on how to improve their skills, use new technology, or just to show them something interesting you’ve come across.

Requirements:
All of our developers here have experience in the following, in order of how often you’ll be using these languages/patterns:.NET / C# using the MVC frameworkService-repository pattern and dependency injectionSQL (we use Dapper a lot in our apps sprinkled around a fair amount of LINQ to SQL)Relational DB developmentUnit and regression testingSSISjQueryHTML/CSS

Benefits:
Working at We Are Mammoth: We're a hard working team of about 15. We opt for smarter, constantly-tuned between the lines work weeks to maintain a meaningful work/life balance.Everybody starts with 15 days of paid vacation. Each year, you'll get 5 more until you've got 25. We've got a beautiful office in Chicago's Fulton Market. It's like a home, a library, and a gallery mashed into one. If you're working remote, well, you'll be joining us quarterly here at hq, too. We've got an employer-matched retirement plan with company matching up to 3%.We'll pay for a parking space or public transportation.We do annual salary reviews, bi-annual how-things-are-going reviews, and have an employee profit-sharing plan.